An intelligent approach to predict unconfined compressive strength of rock surrounding access tunnels in longwall coal mining

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 233-241

  Rezaei, Mohammad ^a   Majdi, Abbas ^a   Monjezi, Masoud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Access tunnel; Fuzzy model; Longwall mining; Statistical model; Unconfined compressive strength

Indexed keywords

DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; FUZZY MODELING; LABORATORY DETERMINATIONS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LONGWALL COAL MININGS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STATISTICAL MODELING; UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

COAL MINES; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; LONGWALL MINING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ROCKS;

EID: 84891863349     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-012-1221-x     Document Type: Article

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